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What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

What is the worst drug to have withdrawals from?

  • Heroin

    Votes: 100 13.5%

  • Methadone

    Votes: 98 13.2%

  • Oxymorphone

    Votes: 27 3.6%

  • Tramadol

    Votes: 22 3.0%

  • Benzodiazepines

    Votes: 292 39.3%

  • GHB/GBL

    Votes: 20 2.7%

  • Alcohol

    Votes: 45 6.1%

  • Meth/Amphetamines

    Votes: 39 5.2%

  • Cocaine/Crack

    Votes: 13 1.7%

  • Ketamine

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • SSRI/SNRI/MAOI/TCA/TeCA antidepressants

    Votes: 21 2.8%

  • Other Opiates/Opioids

    Votes: 65 8.7%
  • Total voters
    743
Opiates for pain or for recreation; my hellish withdrawls.

I can't really say what the worst opiate withdrawl is, as I've been prescribed many for the past 5yrs for spinal issues. My doctor retired and now my PCP is now in the process of finding a new spinal doctor in his place, as he feels that a PM doctor is best for me with no surgical options. As for me, I was taking many opiates: Dilaudid 8mg-5x's day, Oxycodone 10mg-8x's a day and a switch between that and Norco 10mg-8x's a day. A lot of meds. So of course my scripts ran out after my Dr retired....bad thing since my PCP Dr is allowing me to go through full wd even though he thinks the best treatment for me is pain management. No help from him to taper at all until this new Dr is found. First it was the Dilaudid wd and let me say, it was/ has been pure hell. Then it was the Oxy wd, which has been a first class ticket to hell. I still have some norco, which has probably helped some of the wd...although not much. Constant sleeplessness, RLS like mad, mental mood swings, anxiety, etc., even with the help of the norco. I am not sure if this wd is so bad because there was more than one to come off of or what but let me say that those two have been AWFUL withdrawls! They would more than likely be even worse w/out the Norco- which I'm slowly trying to taper off of as well. It is difficult in more ways than one but since I have true pain, I am not sure where the wd ends and the true pain begins. These opiates do a large number on our bodies, minds and souls. Whether needed for true pain or not, the wd is all the same. I can say that these opiates did save my life. In the beginning I was so worried and against taking any meds at all until I had to choose between taking medication so I could live a normal healthy life where I could participate in life without pain or to continue on as I was being in so much pain I couldn't get up in the morning. Its obvious what I chose and it is now 5yrs later and now I am in hell. It is hard to think back about when I had a time to choose between the two options...I can say only one thing for a fact: these two drugs have been hellish to get off of and still is, since I am still going through the wd's. A taper without a doubt would've been easier no doubt about it. If you are a person thinking to use any of these drugs for a high or because someone else wants you to join in on the use or if you want to try them because of a difficult situation you may be going through and your looking for an outlet, please don't. These medications should only be used as a last resort for a legit medical reason taking them as rx even then the ones of us who actually need it are taking a huge gamble! If I could go back, especially in the state I'm in while going through wd's, my answer may have been different if I knew then what I know now. I am miserable, and the RLS is enough to drive a person completely mad! This is nothing short of pure hell!
 
Oxymorphone, hands down.

For future reference, don't do 80mg a day for 2 months, and then just stop.
 
worst i've experienced is heroin, but from what i hear benzos/barbs/alch take the cake. methadone is no walk in the park either
 
It really depends on how much of your drug of choice your doing, and how long daily you have been consistently using for.. For example.. a 4 bundle a day heroin habit you've had for a year straight is going to be much more brutal of a kick than a mild benzo habit you've had for a couple months.. etc. etc. There is no simple answer because everybody's usage is different and there is really no correlation between doses when it comes to comparing heroin to benzos to alcohol..You can't say that 1 bag of heroin is equal to one drink or one pill or whatever.. It's just always so different. The one thing that remains true is that the longer your body has been used to a particular drug, whatever it is.. and if you were doing large enough quantities.. you're going to be in for a world of hurt if you just suddenly stop.
 
Like mr.scagnattie said, it's dependent on the period of use and the dosages involved... Also, obviously, personal preference for a drug makes the psychological cravings a whole lot stronger - cannabis is very benign to "withdraw" from, but I have immense cravings for cannabis (as long as I know it's easily available, as it always is in the Netherlands) when I try not to smoke.

Freebase cocaine produced some truly awful withdrawal symptoms (I smoked 30g of some stuff at least 70% pure converted into freebase in 30 days, smoking every day), but mostly psychological. Tramadol was also a bitch to withdraw from after about 3-4 months of 300-600mg per day roughly.

The worst withdrawal symptoms I've had, though, have come from lorazepam. 1-3mg lorazepam daily over a period of 1 month, when stopped abruptly, gave me the most horrible withdrawal I've ever been in. That's a short time, and normal, medical doses. Brain zaps, muscle jolts, spasms and cramps, aching joints, agoraphobia, insomnia, depersonalisation, irritability, rebound anxiety, severe panic attacks. Never again.
 
if youre talking about the worst drug to w/d from when it comes to the physical aspect - opiates (from heroin to opium to prescription opiate based painkillers like codeine, hydrocodone, oxycontin, morphine,etc), Alcohol (someone thats been drinking daily for a period of time longer than 4-5 months that tries to stop drinking all at once cold turkey can literally die from the withdrawl. Seizures will set in, etc), Benzos (valium, xanax, klonopin, ativan, etc. can also kill you when theyve been taken daily for a long period of time and stopping at once is attempted. Seizures set in, its horrible), GHB/GBL rapid withdrawl can also kill you.

When asked which is the worst its next to impossible to give an accurate answer due to everyone being different but opiate withdrawl is about as close u can get to experiencing a slow death with symptoms so horrid they cant be explained with words...

Alcohol and benzo withdrawl is pretty bad as well..

The mental aspect of withdrawl would include stimulants like cocaine hcl, crack cocaine and or base cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, ice, and a long list of dirivitives like mephedrone, mdpv, etc. These drugs dont have much of a physical hold during withdrawl like the above listed do but they come with a completely different set of symptoms that play with you mentally which can be argued to be worse than the physical symptoms. Studies have shown that methamphetamine users that used 3 or more times a week over a period of more than 6months show permanant damage to their dopimine and seratonin receptors which before methamphetamine and ice was studied there were no cases of permanant un-doable damage to the brain with cocaine or amphetamine use. When ice popped up it everything. normal speed(amphetamine) is usually 10 to 40% Pure, 40 being very high and up to 3-4 years ago, methamphetamine purities were documented as high as 75%. roughly 4 or 5 years ago there was a noticable change in meth users. The psychosis that comes with prolonged use was getting much worse than ever seen, and meth began showing up at levels of purity up to and over 90%. "ICE" is basically methamphetamine in its pure form, its like speed on steroids and is hands down the most destructive drug mentally and physically that weve ever seen. It will take a perfectly healthy human with no health issues and turn them into a zombie in less than half a year. With cocaine a gram will last 1 user a day or night, or a couple users a night, a gram of ice which are now basically the same price will keep a user awake and going nonstop for days, and often weeeks. People are known to go weeks without sleeping or eating all the while in a state called tweaking which is a psychosis brought on by meth use. users will spend days taking electronical devices apart and putting them back together, known as Frankensteining. They become EXTREMELY paranoid - become convinced they are being watched, and will shave off all their body hair due to thoughts of aliens, police, bugs, etc. users will scrape, pick, scratch etc at their skin for days leaving them with huge open wounds.. with all other drugs the withdrawl and detox process the physical symptoms can last up to 3 or 4 months, mental symptoms with cocaine will last about the same, but with ICE users are reported to feeling barely any difference after being drug free for up to a year and a half...
 
being someone thats personally withdrawled after long daily use of benzo's (6mg of klonopin daily for 3+years), oxycodone/oxycontin at the worst taking five to six 80mg oxycontin in the morning, four or five mid day and another four or five at night / or 35 5mg/325mg oxycodone percocet 3x daily for a year and a half). I would have to say that although opiate withdrawl is absolutely horrid and the most undescribable torture ive ever felt, benzo withdrawl came with random seizures which were literally (for me) impossible to deal with meaning that still to this day i take klonopin as prescribed. after 48hrs the shakes came in and my muscles were convulsing, shaking, seizing uncontrollably and i began to have seizures... i lasted 6 days before filling my script at the pharmacy.
 
mines methadone it made me feel discusting for 6 weeks when i stopped using it i thought i was clever and could do a turkey from 60 mils just like that ..never again im on subutex now i swapped over from 26 mils of meth so im shitting coming off these now ..im such a baby
 
Hey man, I just want to say thank you for this post, it was nice, I read it all.
Thank you, and if you ever need anyone to talk to, you can talk to ME, if you are ever WD'ing and need help, you can talk to me bro.

Thanks for your advice.

I was dependant on Oxy's about 2 years ago, and ever since I have been on the methadone program.
There has been a couple of times where I screwed up, and had to face the horrifying withdrawal's of methadone, and I can tell you, it is much worse than oxy's.

By far the worst thing for me, is the anxiety, and the RLS.
I get so anxious, I try to fall asleep, and if I'm lucky, I can get 30 min to an hour of sleep, before waking up again, feeling HORRIBLE, shaking, and my legs feel like they are about to explode with energy, and I feel like I want to just go sprint across the city, even though it probably wouldn't help if I did.

It is just so horrible, and indescribable, it is hell on earth, no joke.
 
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Etizolam was 6 nights of hell on earth for me, insomnia and paranoia like never before.... never doing that again
 
Meth withdrawal compared to Heroin withdrawal

I haven't known anyone who was addicted to heroin, but i read a few times on here people comparing heroin withdrawal to a bad flu. But i have read a lot and it seems like that heroin withdrawal is 100x times worse than a "bad" flu, but i'm not sure. On the other hand i think people underestimate how bitchy meth makes people, and how your body is aching everywhere and that sometimes you permanently damage your brain. I don't have experience with either in addiction, but since these two seem like the two biggest/worst street drugs, how would you compare them in terms of withdrawal and what sorts of different side effects do you experience that are different from one another
 
I've never withdrawn from heroin, but I've withdrawn from other opioids and from meth, and I can assure you opioid withdrawal is much worse. With opioid withdrawal you get chills, shakes, tremors, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, extreme diarrhea, increased HR and BP, severe anxiety, insomnia, RLS, etc. With meth withdrawal you get increased appetite, irritability, anxiety, and insomnia often times.

Opioid withdrawal is physiological and psychological whereas [meth]amphetamine withdrawal is just psychological.
 
^ what he said.
Opiod withdrawal is much worse, no matter what any tweaker will tell you.
 
my sponsor was an IV meth and heroin user. he said h was Way worse and thats why he started using meth over h.
 
Never had meth withdrawal but have had it from crack and heroin WD makes coke WD seem like a myth.
 
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